Startup pitch competition: Jason invests $25K LIVE! | E1866
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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This Week in Startups is brought to you by…
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Today’s show:
Jason and Kelly Schricker introduce the Founder University pitch competition (1:11), then we hear from Abe at GolfGolf (7:16), Mircea from Cicada (15:25), Spencer of dotflo (27:16), and Shreyas from Clinic Assist (34:54). Finally, Jason awards a $25K investment (34:54), and much more!
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Jason kicks off the show
(1:11) Jason and Kelly Schricker introduce the Founder University pitch competition
(7:16) Abe pitches GolfGolf
(13:31) Vanta - Get $1000 off your SOC 2 at http://www.vanta.com/twist
(15:25) Mircea pitches Cicada
(22:14) .Tech Domains - Apply to get your startup featured on This Week in Startups at http://www.startups.tech/jason
(27:16) Spencer pitches dotflo
(32:41) OpenPhone - Get 20% off your first six months at https://openphone.com/twist
(34:54) Shreyas pitches Clinic Assist
(43:52) Jason awards a $25K investment
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Check out the pitch competitors here:
GolfGolf -Â golfgolf.tech
Cicada -Â cicadamusic.net
Dotflo -Â dotflo.co
Clinic Assist -Â clinicassist.ai
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| 0:00.0 | Today I'm going to have four Seed Stage Startups pitch me their products and then decide which one of them to give a friends and family $25,000 check to right here on the show. |
| 0:12.0 | This Week in Startups is brought to you by Vanta. |
| 0:16.0 | Compliance and security shouldn't be a deal breaker for startups to win new business. |
| 0:21.0 | Vanta makes it easy for companies to get a sock-2 report fast. |
| 0:25.1 | Twist listeners can get $1,000 off for a limited time at vanta.com slash twist. |
| 0:32.2 | Dot-tech domains has a new program called Startups. Tech, |
| 0:36.0 | where you can get your company featured on this week in startups. |
| 0:39.0 | Go to Startups. |
| 0:40.0 | Go to Startups. tech slash Jason to find out how. |
| 0:42.0 | And Open Phone |
| 0:44.0 | Phone brings your team's business calls, texts, and contacts into one delightful |
| 0:48.6 | app that works anywhere. |
| 0:50.0 | Get 20% off your first six months at open phone.com slash twist. |
| 0:55.2 | All right everybody. Welcome back to this week in startups. We've got a special |
| 0:58.9 | episode for you today. I'm going to have four seed Stage Startups pitch me their products and then decide which one of them to give a friends and family |
| 1:08.0 | $25,000 check to right here on the show. So with me today is Kelly Shricker. Kelly runs the |
| 1:18.2 | founder university which we do at my investment firm launch. What is founder university? Well it's a 12 week |
| 1:24.9 | course it occurs Monday and Thursday nights at 6 p.m. Pacific and we have a |
| 1:30.6 | curriculum and we teach founders how to start a company about half the companies who come to founder university are not yet incorporated their side hustles projects you know they're in the ideation phase maybe they've got two or three |
| 1:46.0 | co-founders and they're building Kelly we're we're starting our seventh |
| 1:50.0 | cohort can you believe it I cannot but I am so excited. Yeah, and so if people want to apply, what's the perfect |
| 1:58.0 | stage of a company to come to Founding University and where can they apply? |
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